Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
2007 · 21 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 1,423 VOTES · DIR. Koji Yamamura
Overview
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
Dialogue Timeline — 130 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:22 The true way is along a rope
00:01:09 I am in great difficulty.
00:02:14 Please!
00:04:34 You brute!
00:04:59 Climb in.
00:05:26 No!
00:05:56 Giddy up!
00:07:56 and even throw in a groom as a bonus.
00:09:05 so his circulation's a little off
00:09:45 Badly paid
00:10:22 If they hadn't happened to be horses, I'd have had to travel with pigs.
00:10:47 but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
00:11:37 I must somehow, in my own head
00:12:10 I am somehow ready to concede that the young man is perhaps truly sick.
00:12:56 I have found out your great wound.
00:13:47 Take his clothes off
00:14:15 It's only a doctor.
00:14:53 you give me less room on my deathbed.
00:15:11 Believe me, things are not easy for me either.
00:15:34 your mistake is that you have no perspective.
00:16:08 to say nothing of the fact that it's coming closer to them.
00:16:31 of a medical doctor.
00:17:41 The doctor's laid in bed with you.
00:19:00 there's no making it good again.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed130
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line00:19:00
Production Record
DirectorKoji Yamamura
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes1,423